Hi Andrey,
As you observe, the Event dispatch function is not a part of the
public API, so it cannot be depending upon (future implementation may
change it's behavior).
Can you explain your use case? Why are you trying to simulate a click
to the browserAction?
As to your second question (why do you have to call the background
pages event.dispatch), the reason is that each page has it's own copy
of that event object, with it's own set of listeners. The
event.dispatch() as receiver of event data from the browser, not a
sender. It merely routes the event information to the listeners in
that context.
There is no way to "fire" events from javascript such that their
behavior would mimic the behavior as if the event had been generated
"organically" from the browser.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Rafael
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Andrey <aand...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Team,
> Can I use the following code to simulate a browser action click:
>
> chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {
> var backgroundPage = chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage();
> backgroundPage.chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch(tab);
> });
>
> This code does work, but AFAIU, the
> chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch() is NOT a documented API, is
> it? But still I'll ask, can I rely on it? :)
>
> And, as a side note: notice that I have to use the backgroundPage's
> chrome object to do the trick when the code is being run inside a
> browserAction's popup page. Bother to explain why the direct
> chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch() would not work? :)
>
> Thanks.
>
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